You can never have enough headbands! Do you rather love it traditional with deer and hearts or rather freaked out with skulls? Or knit both! The Malabrigo Sock is definitely enough for both versions or you could use leftovers from previous projects. Per headband I needed approx. 16g per color.
And the best of all, because it is double knitting, you don’t have to decide which color to use for the motifs, the headband is reversible.

Pattern Specifications

Skill Level:
easy

Size:
One size
Circumference: 40cm / 15,7” (unstretched)
Height: 10cm / 4”

Yarn
2 skeins of Malabrigo Sock (100% Superwash Merino Wool) fingering weight, each 100g (402 meters / 440 yards)
Shown in
MC = “Chocolate”; for each sample used approx. 16g
CC = “Impressionist Sky”; for each sample used approx. 16g

Needles
3.5 mm / US 4 circular needle, 40cm / 16” length

Notions
1 Stitch marker for “end-of-round”
Darning needle
Blocking pins
Blocking mat

Gauge
27 sts and 42 rnds per 10cm / 4” worked in round in double knitting, after blocking.
Changes in gauge will result in size differences and affect the amount of yarn needed to complete the project.

Techniques Used
• 2 color cast on
• Two color ribbing, I used Brioche Knitting
Brioche: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZlNwvYZHec
Stranded ribbing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksBur4BFlxM
• Circular knitting
• Double Knitting
(You knit two right sides at the same time, with two colors. At the end of this pattern, you find a mini tutorial. Important to know: the chart shows only the front side stitches (MC) and the backside stitches (CC) are worked simultaneously)

Tech edited by LaVisch.

German Version will follow soon.